9 Tomato Recipes by Gramercy Tavern Chef Michael Anthony

Talk to a tomato lover about high tomato season, when the sun's fully saturated each fruit and you can smell the ripeness coming off the skin from two feet away, and prepare for a lull in the conversation: for a moment, the tomato lover can't even remember where they are, or who they're talking to. They're lost in tomatoland.

As much as we all like to imagine ourselves in next to a pool filled with tomatoes, diving in, there is some virtue to actually using them in cooking. And in our August issue, chef Michael Anthony from NYC's Gramercy Tavern came up with amazing ways to use tomatoes, from simply poaching them in garlicky oil to using sweet little Sun Golds to make a warm, spicy sauce. Tomatoland's calling.